Crowned Masterpieces of Literature that Have Advanced Civilization: As Preserved and Presented by the World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Zväzok 2Ferd. P. Kaiser, 1902 |
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Strana 435
... learned the violin and French conversation . " This assertion made by Professor Holland , of Oxford , is no more incredible than is the actual achievement of Bentham's mature intellect , illustrated in the results of his attempts to ...
... learned the violin and French conversation . " This assertion made by Professor Holland , of Oxford , is no more incredible than is the actual achievement of Bentham's mature intellect , illustrated in the results of his attempts to ...
Strana 450
... learned from them . Montaigne's " Essays " owe their greatest charm to the fact that they reveal not only the secrets of a soul , but of a soul not much raised above the commonplace , and like our own . Such influences as acted upon his ...
... learned from them . Montaigne's " Essays " owe their greatest charm to the fact that they reveal not only the secrets of a soul , but of a soul not much raised above the commonplace , and like our own . Such influences as acted upon his ...
Strana 463
... learned from Homer that the Scotch fiddle which instructed Burns in melody had in it the soul of Greek poetic art . From the studies of the great masterpieces of Greece , he learned to know and to reverence as sub- lime the simplicity ...
... learned from Homer that the Scotch fiddle which instructed Burns in melody had in it the soul of Greek poetic art . From the studies of the great masterpieces of Greece , he learned to know and to reverence as sub- lime the simplicity ...
Strana 485
... learned writer compares Isaiah to Homer , Jeremiah to Si- monides , and Ezekiel to Eschylus . Most of the book of Isaiah is strictly poetical ; of Jeremiah and Ezekiel , not above one - half can be held to belong to poetry . Among the ...
... learned writer compares Isaiah to Homer , Jeremiah to Si- monides , and Ezekiel to Eschylus . Most of the book of Isaiah is strictly poetical ; of Jeremiah and Ezekiel , not above one - half can be held to belong to poetry . Among the ...
Strana 502
... learned , who know this simple . fact , or who have ever been startled by the palpable impossibility of the modernizing explanation of the Boar's Head Dinner ! ― We cannot wonder , therefore , that the restless chasing of the Wild ...
... learned , who know this simple . fact , or who have ever been startled by the palpable impossibility of the modernizing explanation of the Boar's Head Dinner ! ― We cannot wonder , therefore , that the restless chasing of the Wild ...
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Strana 443 - ... cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music; and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner...
Strana 807 - Tis two or three, my lord, that bring you word Macduff is fled to England. Macb. Fled to England ? Len. Ay, my good lord. Macb. Time, thou anticipat'st my dread exploits The flighty purpose never is o'ertook Unless the deed go with it : from this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.
Strana 806 - Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well; Treason has done his worst: nor steel, nor poison, Malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing Can touch him further.
Strana 586 - ... that general Visitation™ of GOD, Who saw that all that He had made was good, that is, conformable to His Will, which abhors deformity, and is the rule of order and beauty. There is no deformity but in Monstrosity; wherein, notwithstanding, there is a kind of Beauty; Nature so ingeniously contriving the irregular parts, as they become sometimes more remarkable than the principal Fabrick.
Strana 665 - Love thou thy land, with love far- brought From out the storied Past, and used Within the Present, but transfused Thro' future time by power of thought.
Strana 765 - Physician art thou ? one all eyes, Philosopher! a fingering slave, One that would peep and botanize Upon his mother's grave...
Strana 702 - I say unto you, refrain from these men and let them alone, for if this counsel or this work be of men it will come to naught; but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it, lest haply ye be found to fight against God.
Strana 574 - For the world, I count it not an inn, but an hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in. The world that I regard is myself; it is the microcosm of my own frame that I cast mine eye on; for the other, I use it but like my globe, and turn it round sometimes for my recreation.
Strana 611 - There is therefore but one comfort left, that, though it be in the power of the weakest arm to take away life, it is not in the strongest to deprive us of death...
Strana 585 - Thus there are two books from whence I collect my divinity ; besides that written one of God, another of his servant nature, that universal and public manuscript, that lies expansed unto the eyes of all : those that never saw him in the one, have discovered him in the other.